Platform Bioinformatician

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Platform Bioinformatician in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
10/11/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Build and operate cloud data infrastructure, including object storage, lakehouse architecture, catalogs, lineage, versioning, and access layers.
Design and maintain governed data warehouses for clinical records, molecular features, metadata, and versioned dataset releases.
Develop reproducible whole-genome sequencing, RNA sequencing, and proteomics pipelines using containerized workflows and cloud batch compute.
Implement data quality checks, biological validation, and visualizations across processing steps.
Prepare training-ready dataset releases and build data deployment interfaces for models used in partner environments.
Operate production cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD systems, and distributed workload orchestration with attention to reliability, security, observability, and cost.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering, including operating cloud infrastructure in a high-growth startup or technically demanding environment.
Deep AWS or GCP experience, including production Kubernetes, and experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
Production programming experience in Python and/or Go, plus experience designing CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems.
Experience building job orchestration or scheduling systems for distributed workloads; GPU or machine learning infrastructure experience is a plus.
Familiarity with biological, clinical, or other sensitive data and production data pipelines.
Experience with Nextflow or similar workflow managers, lakehouse and warehouse design, data catalogs, Docker, and cloud batch compute is relevant.
Python, R, SQL, and familiarity with standards such as OMOP or FHIR are useful.

Benefits

Visa sponsorship is not available.
The position is on-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

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